My husband Rod is allergic to fir trees. Since we found this out, we've not had a live Christmas tree. Just as well there's no tree this year as the kittens would make short work of it! But last winter I got out an old wool quilt project and finished it. It was fun couching shiny black rat tail cord over the piece sketchbook-style following a chalked 'doodle tree' outline.
He filled the back of my Toyota pick-up with the bags and they moved with me to North Carolina. Aside from the red wool borders and rat tail cord, all the elements of Doodle Tree are from those wool samples. I love quilting on wool. You can use bigger stitches (I quilted with black carpet thread) since the stitches tend to sink into the material if they're too small.
The Doddle Tree quilt was finished with black binding and I hung it on the wall this year. If you click the star detail you can see the black quilting stitches close up.
Merry Christmas and happy quilting to you all.
4 comments:
I remember when you got those samples. He finally closed his business about 8 years ago. I guess it was time to retire.
What a wonderful story of "rescuing" the wool samples. We have a wool quilt, made by Ted's grandma, from wool suiting samples --- heavy, heavy, heavy ---but I treasure it! ...and the sketched tree is lovely!
My Michigan friends again-thank you for communicating once more! Sorry to hear about the tailor closing but some of my Lansing quilter friends also got bags--there should be more wool quilts running around up your way.
Peace.
What a great alternative to a tree...I can see this becoming a trend:)
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